{"id":315,"date":"2010-09-02T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/?p=315"},"modified":"2016-04-30T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T12:01:03","slug":"guacamole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/09\/guacamole\/","title":{"rendered":"Guacamole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Guacamole is a well-known avocado dip. Many of you will agree. I agree too. I serve it as a dip when we have visitors. However, when I am alone, I like to have my guacamole as a one inch thick spread on some crisp bread.\u00a0 A couple of those is one of my favorite summer lunches.<\/div>\n
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Guacamole is one of those foods that surprised me by their simplicity when I made the first time. It’s something that you can’t get wrong. Even on your bad kitchen days.
\nI have never tried any other recipe than Ina Garten’s. I found this one so good right from the beginning that there was no need to experiment. Guests have praised this guacamole too.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nPerhaps there is just one thing I like to point out: raw onion and garlic I can only have in tiny amounts (especially when I eat it at lunchtime) as I will have their taste in my mouth for the rest of the day. I go a little easier on them when eating it earlier in the day. But otherwise it is just what you need: full of flavor, still raw with all the ingredients. Filling, yet light on the stomach. Extremely tasty and healthy. Just right up my alley. For all these reasons, I put the guacamole inch-thick on my crisp bread.
\nIn her book and on the Food Network website the recipe uses 4 avocados. I found that too much (even when we have guests who would only eat it as a dip) and made adjustments toward one avocado. It can easily be doubled or tripled or use the original recipe with 4 avocados.
\nIn any way, it will be yum!! That I can promise you.
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GUACAMOLE\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
adapted\u00a0 from Ina Garten’s The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook<\/i><\/div>\n
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(Print Recipe)<\/a><\/div>\n
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1 ripe avocado<\/div>\n
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice<\/div>\n
1 teaspoon red onion, finely chopped<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon garlic, minced<\/div>\n
2 dashes hot sauce (I use Tabasco)<\/div>\n
2 tablespoons fresh tomatoes, deseeded and finely chopped<\/div>\n
salt and pepper to taste<\/div>\n
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Serves 1-2<\/div>\n

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\nCut the avocado in half, remove the pips. Scoop the flesh out of their shells into a medium bowl. Mash with a fork. Immediately add lemon juice, Tabasco sauce, onion, garlic, salt, and pepper and stir well. Add the tomatoes. Mix well and taste for salt and pepper.<\/p>\n

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